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"The Ladies' Bras" is a song by
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and Wisbey which reached number 27 in the UK singles chart in September 2007. At 36 seconds, it was the shortest song ever to enter the chart, taking the record just a few weeks after the song "Spider Pig" (1 minute, 4 seconds), from the 2007 film ''
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'' had taken it. Before that, the shortest charting single had been Liam Lynch's 2002 " United States of Whatever" (1 minutes, 26 seconds). In 2025, the record of the shortest song to enter the UK top 40 chart was broken by the 34-second long "
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" by
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from the film ''
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''. "The Ladies' Bras" became popular after it was played on
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's ''
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''
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show, reaching number 70 on the UK singles chart with 1,644 sales and no national airplay. It was later picked up by
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on
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, who campaigned to get it in the charts by asking guests on his show including
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and
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to sing it live on air. Originally available on the Trunk Records 10th anniversary compilation CD ''Now We Are 10'', the track was also available for download on services such as
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and Wippit and had no official music video. The melody is " The Gonk" from George Romero's 1978 '' Dawn of the Dead'' soundtrack, as played in the supermarket scenes.


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* 2007 singles Trunk Records singles 2007 songs {{2000s-UK-single-stub